Now begins the SD talk about Jews – UNT

Now begins the SD talk about Jews – UNT

But as Second Deputy President Björn Söder says that Jews and Sami are not Swedes, it is necessary.

South interviewed in Dagens Nyheter on Sunday in connection with the SD’s Municipality days in Västerås. When the reporter Niklas Orrenius asking about the consequences of SD’s view that “the people” must be uniform for democracy to function adds the South itself out text about Jews, Sami and later also about Kurds. But what he says could apply to any group.

South states – with no trace of evidence – that most of jew background in Sweden has “left his Jewish identity.” Then they can be counted as Swedes. If they have not done it “need not be a problem.” They can be citizens even if they do not belong to the Swedish “nation.”

Or maybe not? We all have a variety of identities, that is changing, influenced and combined with each other. In a context, an identity felt most importantly, in other contexts, is the second.

But in SD’s Sweden yards, one is not about who you are and how you want to perceive themselves himself. What the South says is that party assumes the right to decide who belongs to the “nation” and determine what rights you have or do not have.

Central Jewish Council chairman Lena Posner-Körösyi is furious. I decide for yourself who I am, she says, noting that Björn Söder’s statement is an insult. And the insult, of course, not only Jews but every single Swedish does not correspond to SD’s arbitrary definitions.

The moment that you start locking people at the dimly-described “nations” and consider some as superior and others as “guests” as you open the door to discrimination, deportation, citizenship withdrawn or otherwise. The parallel Posner-Körösyi attracts the 1930s is fully justified.

But you do not go to the 30′s, nor to Nazism. In Poland in 1968 decided the power of ownership Communist Party to Jews who so far had the same status as other residents in the country, was no longer desirable.

The Jews who survived World War II were harassed, lost their job and were driven out of the country – in many cases to Sweden. The accusation was that in their capacity as Jews could not be real Poles – and who was a Pole was decided by the Party.

In the conceptual apparatus leading Sweden Democrats use often talks of a battle between the “national” and the “cosmopolitan”. They are of course aware that the “cosmopolitan” was just that code word for Jews used in the Stalinist Eastern Europe.

Even a leading Sverigedemokrat , Kent Ekeroth, has the party’s support right exercised for registration of criminals parents – if they were born abroad. The logic is the same. You are nothing in yourself. The only thing that counts is what the Party believes about your background. Such a society can never stay together.